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(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima has asked the Supreme Court for it to allow her to take part in oral arguments for the opposition lawmakers’ petition questioning the Philippines’ planned withdrawal from the Rome Statute. “..This Honorable Court is respectfully asked to take judicial notice of its practice of permitting members of Congress to appear before it and argue their cases,” De Lima, who was among those who filed the petition against the […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima on Saturday, June 22, condemned the Philippine National Police’s operations against loiterers, saying they should go after the “rude loiterer” in Malacañang instead. “Kung naghahanap ng tambay ang PNP, doon sila pumunta sa Malacañang. May bastos, palamura at tsismosong siga doon. Ang pangalan niya ay Rodrigo Roa Duterte,” she said. According to De Lima, the operations against loiterers were “really wrong.” “Pinapatay na nga nila sa ‘Tokhang’ ang mga mahihirap. […]
(Eagle News) — A Muntinlupa court junked on Friday, June 22, Senator Leila de Lima’s motion to quash the case of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading filed by the Department of Justice against her. Boni Tacardon, De Lima’s lawyer, said the Branch 206 judge junked the motion, which was filed after the court allowed the prosecution to amend its original charge of illegal drug trading, on a technicality. Despite the denial, De Lima’s […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima on Saturday, June 9, belied former Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre’s claim that the Supreme Court decision that affirmed the validity of her arrest on drug charges vindicated him. According to De Lima, “it only means that the Davao criminal syndicate that has captured state power in 2016 has not only been using the power of the executive department to eliminate their sworn enemies, like myself, but was also able to extend […]
(Eagle News) — Resigned Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre on Thursday, June 7, said the Supreme Court decision that denied with finality detained Senator Leila de Lima’s plea for the arrest warrant issued against her to be nullified only shows that her case was “not of political persecution” as some claimed. “The SC’s decision on the motion for reconsideration of Senator Leila de Lima affirmed what we all knew along. Her arrest on drug charges indeed […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Supreme Court has denied with finality former Senator Leila de Lima’s bid for the arrest warrant issued against her in connection with the drug cases she faces to be nullified. In denying De Lima’s motion for reconsideration of the High Court’s October 10, 2017 decision, the SC also effectively ruled that the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court, and not the Sandiganbayan, has jurisdiction over the cases against her. According […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday, May 30, slammed Solicitor General Jose Calida for what she said was his “hypocrisy” after he denied any conflict of interest when his family’s security firm bagged several contracts in some government agencies. “He has the gall to claim that there is no conflict of interest despite official records showing that his family-owned security firm bagged P150-million worth of contracts from government agencies,” she said, as […]
(Eagle News) — A Muntinlupa court has rejected Senator Leila de Lima’s request for her to be allowed to attend her son’s graduation on June 3. In rejecting her urgent motion to attend the rites of Vincent Joshua De Lima Bohol, Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 205 Judge Amelia Fabros-Corpuz said the senator, who is facing drug-related charges, could not be treated differently from “other prisoners whose liberty is curtailed, pending the final resolution of their […]
(Eagle News) — Two Muntinlupa courts have deferred the arraignment of Senator Leila de Lima for drug-related cases. Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court Branch 206 Judge Lorna Navarro-Domingo reset the senator’s arraignment to June 22 after her camp filed a motion to quash. The filing came after the court denied her camp’s motion for reconsideration of the court’s decision to allow the prosecution’s amendment of the information filed against De Lima—from illegal drug trading to conspiracy to […]
(Eagle News) — Detained Senator Leila de Lima has asked two branches of the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court that she be granted furlough so she can attend her son’s graduation rites. De Lima, who is facing drug-related cases, filed the urgent motion before Branches 205 and 206. In her motion, she said her son, Vincent Joshua de Lima Bohol, was slated to graduate with a law degree from San Beda College in Muntinlupa during ceremonies tentatively scheduled […]
(Eagle News) — Detained Senator Leila de Lima has filed a bill to ensure the protection of what she said were the rights of “human rights defenders.” De Lima said Senate Bill 1699 was filed after the “obsessive attacks against” the “concepts and principles”of “human rights defenders” like herself, “led by no less than the President himself.” Under the measure, she said the rights of these “defenders” include their right to seek and receive information, their […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Leila de Lima called on the international community to “continue condemning and making the Duterte administration accountable for its murderous war on drugs that lacks moral and legal justification.” De Lima made the call in a statement read during the 61st Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna, and which was sent to the media on Saturday. “Let us all say no to extrajudicial killings committed in its name and demand accountability […]
